When Texas political leaders project images of themselves, it’s always the same. They’re in cowboy hats, boots, and toting a firearm. It’s how we like to imagine ourselves: the rugged cowboy, squinting into the distance, masculinely thinking about something. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is none of that. Instead, Cruz is our political reality: a smarmy, […]
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Where Have You Gone, George W. Bush?
On Oct. 10, former President Barack Obama stepped back into the political fray. Former President Donald Trump had spent weeks dominating news cycles with lies about Haitian-born immigrants eating neighbors’ pets in Ohio, lies about Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris being a Marxist, and still more lies about the 2020 election being rigged against him. […]
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‘I See You, and I Am With You.’ Texas Women Needed That Harris Rally.
In Texas, the past few years for women have been terrifying. Abortion bans became real. Exceptions turned out to be rare. Some have nearly died during miscarriages. If you don’t feel like you’ve been abandoned by our lawmakers, you might feel like the government is trying to kill you. The 2024 election cycle, meanwhile, has […]
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Texas Is the Center of American Politics This Week. Get Used to It.
It’s difficult to remember the last time both major party presidential candidates appeared in Texas so close to an election. There’s an old adage in politics, that campaigns have only three resources: time, money, and people. You can always find one more volunteer. You can always raise one more dollar. But you can never get […]
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Texas Woman Gets Death Threats For Baking Tim Walz Cookie
If there’s one truism in life, it’s that people on the internet will take any opportunity to act like assholes. Case in point: A bakery in Flower Mound has received death threats for daring to make a cookie with vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s face on it. Haley Popp, who owns Hive Bakery, told The […]
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Texas Man Buys, Then Publicly Destroys, $4,000 Taylor Swift Guitar
Somebody—well, a man—bought a perfectly good Taylor Swift guitar just to smash it up. It happened recently in Waxahachie at the Ellis County Wild Game Dinner, where a man paid a reported $4,000 for the guitar (plus a wall hanger), according to WFAA. But the winner brought a hammer on stage. In a video, the […]
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Tim Walz Tells Dallas Donors That Fear ‘Doesn’t Inspire’
Fewer than 24 hours before Kamala Harris took the stage for her first live debate against Donald Trump, vice presidential nominee Tim Walz spent Monday afternoon in Dallas, telling attendees at his 30-minute address that voters should take Project 2025 seriously. “They’re not kidding,” Walz said at the private fundraising event, according to The Dallas […]
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Jasmine Crockett Named National Co-Chair for Harris Campaign
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who represents Dallas, has been tapped to serve as co-chair of Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign. The Democrat, who has made waves through her confrontations with Republicans on Capitol Hill, said she plans to rally support across the nation for Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. “I’ve gone […]